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Brossa, Mestres Quadreny and other expanded poems

MACBA in Guadalajara

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Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, 1971, Aronada

The MACBA Collection is currently represented at the Museo Cabañas in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, as part of the project Contact Reading. Poetics and Experimentation in Spain. 1962 – 1972, an exhibition produced by Acción Cultural Española. It is presented within the framework of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which this year welcomes Spain as its guest of honour. During the last years of the Franco regime, and in a climate of strong opposition to the dictatorship, from 1962 a decade of intense artistic experimentation emerged, giving rise to works that play with the plasticity of language, opening it to all areas of experience such as the body, objects, space and time. It was an expanded writing that led to play, encounter, urban travel, music, plastic creation, and public and political action. As the exhibition demonstrates, Catalan artists played a very active role, here represented with works by Joan Brossa, Josep M. Mestres Quadreny, Sílvia Gubern, Benet Rossell, Antoni Llena, Jordi Galí and Àngel Jové.